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Friday, September 17, 2010

This is themixed-mediatriptych that I made for my sister while in Oregon last month. I started these one day while I was stuck on what to do next on the large swirl painting that I made for her. She really likes the store Anthropologie, so I wanted to make these look like something you might see hanging in the background in one of their amazing catalogues.

I found these three thin pieces of plywood in their garage and decided to see what I could do with them. They all got coated with Golden's Light Molding Paste first.

On this one I dragged an old credit card, that I had cut notches in, down the whole piece. When it dried I used the same card as a trowel to apply the molding paste through the stencil, to create a raised pattern down the left side. After it dried I painted it then started adding the embellishments. I found the stick in their yard, and the piece of wood and a cool rusty eye bolt in their garage. The blue crocheted circles were cut from an old lace head covering my sister gave to me, and were beige before I painted them.

I glued on this cool lime green fiber ribbon that my sister had just bought, and then wrapped twine around the stick. Then I nailed in copper tacks to have something to wrap copper wire around to anchor down the stick. I did the same thing to hold the eye bolt to the scrap of wood, then nailed on the crocheted circles.

For this next piece I dragged the notched card through the wet molding paste on the left, and stamped into the rest of it with bubble wrap. When it dried I troweled through a pretty swirly tree stencil to create the raised pattern. After I painted it, I found another small wood scrap and a rock and anchored it with the copper tacks and wire. I also wrapped some twine around it and added the crocheted circle.

I added copper tacks and wire to the bottom for some balance.

On this last piece I drew some lines into the wet paste, then stamped into it with a stamp that I wet first, so it would release easier.

This was finished similar to the others, with paint, then copper tacks, wire, twine, and a crocheted circle.

The three pieces are made to hang separately, but I thought they might also look nice if they were mounted all together onto a larger piece of wood like in this picture below.

Hmm...I do really like that idea too....might just have to scrounge up some more wood to make more...

12 comments:

Amazing, I love this. Just look at all the texture, beautiful colors and all the little items attached to your paintings. It looks so cool, and I love them too mounted on the big piece of wood. Thank you for sharing a bit of your techniques !

About Me

Hi. I am Esther Orloff, a mixed media artist in SoCal. I love to use texture in my paintings, eat healthy delicious food, and spend time in nature with a camera in hand.. and coffee in the other. I believe that art is important and can be a powerful messenger, and that we should all encourage one another in this life.